At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way.… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is that these… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
You live the life of a gipsy when you are on tour, and that's not ideal for family life. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
A Hard Day's Night' is the most perfect pop album you'll ever get to hear in your life; it's filled with definitive versions of… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Around 1988 I started to 'dread' my hair; because it's curly, it would go into dreads naturally if I stopped combing it. But the… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while they're in… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
